Re: two NICs and speed issues

From: Chadley Wilson (chadley_at_pinteq.co.za)
Date: 07/19/04

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    Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 16:08:01 +0200
    
    

    What is your gateway?
    Have your checked your routing tables, and your firwall?

    I don't know how to setup the iptables my self but I have seeen this
    cause by that before.
    let us know will ya!

    On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 16:04, Scot L. Harris wrote:
    > On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 09:45, sam@illawarra.org wrote:
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > i'm running Fedora Core 2 on my server - which, for the most past works
    > > quite well.. kudos to the dev team. However, i have a minor problem i
    > > cannot seem to fix and is thus:
    > >
    > > i have two network cards ( sis900 and usb200m ) and the first is connected
    > > to my dsl300+ (dlink) modem at 10mbit and the other is connected to a
    > > 10/100 switch that feeds the local lan. if i unplug the dsl300+ from the
    > > rj45 my local lan works quite fast 8MBytes ftp transfers etc to the local
    > > net via the usb200m. however if i plug the modem in i only get 120kbyte
    > > transfer speeds and such. i have switched the modem to the other nic and
    > > the same thing happens. for some odd reason i can only get good speeds to
    > > / from the server to the local net if i only make the local net nic 10mbit
    > > with mii-tool OR unplug the modem and thus get 100mbit speeds..
    > >
    > > help!
    > >
    > > regards,
    > > Sam.
    >
    > So if you disconnect the modem (10Mbit) the transfers are fast on the
    > LAN side. And if you set the LAN NIC to 10Mbit and connect the modem to
    > the other NIC your transfer speeds are fast?
    >
    > Have you looked at the stats on the interfaces to see if you are taking
    > any errors?
    >
    > ifconfig -a
    >
    > will give you a listing of each interface. Pay attention to the RX and
    > TX lines, you will see counters for errors, dropped, overruns, and
    > frame. If for some reason you are getting errors on packets they will
    > be retransmitted. Lots of errors will result in very poor performance
    > but the transfer will still get through due to the TCP/IP protocol.
    >
    > Also what type of switch are you using? I have seen some switches that
    > have problems negotiating the right settings. When using 100Mbit
    > connections you want to have full duplex set. For 10Mbit connections
    > half duplex is usually the default. If you have a duplex problem
    > between the NIC and the switch you will see the error count increase
    > during a transfer.
    >
    > >From the description it almost sounds like the interface connecting to
    > the modem is forcing either duplex or speed settings on the other
    > interface. Have you checked that using mii-tool in both configurations?
    > --
    > Scot L. Harris
    > webid@cfl.rr.com
    >
    > It's not hard to admit errors that are [only] cosmetically wrong.
    > -- J.K. Galbraith

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